SAP Production Planning & Inventory Optimization Specialist
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Join Rockwell Automation in Twinsburg, OH as an SAP Production Planning & Inventory Optimization Specialist. You’ll be on-site, reporting to the PCA Team Lead, and you’ll orchestrate order sequencing, inventory health, and supplier follow-ups so production runs without interruption. Cross-functional partnership with Scheduling, Materials, and Engineering is at the heart of this role., * Sequence and release shop orders for your product families/projects based on live capacity and material signals.
- Use SAP exception messages and consumption data to drive timely actions that secure part availability; escalate with suppliers when needed.
- Guard inventory performance across assigned scope; work with Central Material Analysts and Master Schedulers to correct MIN / MAX breaches with data-driven countermeasures.
- Maintain planning master data and parameters-safety stock and reorder points for components and finished goods-aligned to the materials planning playbook and customer service targets.
- Analyze short- and long-term capacity with Master Schedulers and Manufacturing Engineers to head off past-due risk.
- Develop pragmatic material/manufacturing/procurement strategies to enable NPM (new product manufacturing), including new product introductions and phase-outs.
- Align monthly plans for safety stock and targeted finished goods in partnership with the Master Scheduler.
Requirements
Do you have a valid Certified Supply Chain Professional certification?, Do you have experience in Word embeddings?, Do you have a Bachelor’s degree?, * Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline., * 2+ years in Production & Inventory Control, Operations, Purchasing, or Manufacturing Engineering (minimum of 2 years typically required).
- Hands-on experience in a material control/production planning environment.
- ERP fluency (SAP preferred) and strong planning system knowledge.
- APICS CPIM/CIRM/CSCP certification preferred or completed within 24 months.
- Advanced user of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Benefits & conditions
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- Parental leave
- 401(k)
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Caregiver leave, * Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, Vision
- 401(k)
- Paid Time Off
- Parental & Caregiver Leave
- Flexible scheduling in coordination with your manager
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Skills that set you up for success
- Production Planning & Scheduling
- Inventory Management & Control
Be the connector who turns system signals into decisive shop-floor action-and keeps our promises to customers.
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